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Oh and one more little thing. I know you like to say this is Neil's 17 cd released this year and I guess you're right in a way. I agree he's put out a lot of material but most if that is previously available music. For example, I bought Massey Hall and Fillmore before 2009. My choice for the archives, and I thank Neil and his people for making this available, was to legally download the songs from the archives I wanted from Amazon. I came up with 2 discs of material. So I'd say he put out about 5 cd discs or so this year which is still pretty amazing.

This is a wonderfully performed record with a strong emotional linkage. Nicely intense if you get way into it, which I'm sure most of you do.

So this is the 5th performance series record to be let out of the gate, and they are absolute treasures. 4/5 of the perf series exceed my wishes for beautiful, intense, emotional music. It is the michigan show (canterbury house) that falls a bit short for me, but on the other hand it stands up for itself as a case study comparison against the riverboat show, which is from the same tour. To me, riverboat is 1000x as intense as the canterbury show, and I appreiciate having access to both for the purpose of comparison.

Back to 92, I was listening to this for the first time, I noticed I was subconsciously evaluating the audience reaction to the songs with their shouts and whatknot during the tunes, and during Unknown Legend I noticed what I thought was the crowd laughing during the verse about Harley Davidson, which threw me off, but I didn't hear it throw Neil off at all. I was thinking about this being performed before the Harvest Moon release, I guess that's what got me into listening to the crowd...

I love this album, I'm sure it will be revered near the massey hall level when I need some introspective music time.

Thanks to Neil and his apostles for releasing this to our man thrasher, who graciously hosts the preview on his bandwidth.

You guys better have CFLs in (at least) your 5 most used light fixtures in your dwellings! Hope for the best from Copenhagen Denmark next week!

The Archives have caught up with times I remember....strange....I am streaming now and these are Great! I actually didn't mind this version of Such a Woman.

So, 1992....Just started Grad School. Found the "Broken Arrow" fanzine in Tower Records for the first time....on the Verge of finding Rust. And this great Acoustic tour....which I remember as a series of mini-tours...

You have no idea of what my personal situation is so understandably you don't recognize why i threw the $12 dollar figure out there. Suffice it to say I've spent more than my fair share on Neil Young-related activities in 2009. Some quick math tells me i spent upwards of $3000 USD dollars in this calendar year on All Things Neil.

Dreamin' Man sounds good but in my opinion it's too short, and if Neil will charge us again for this, in a future Archives Volume, i will gladly take a pass.

My days of spending wildly on Neil are officially over. Some of this comes with age - i've been a diehard fan for 20-plus years and my interest, while high, no longer borders on hard-core fanaticism. I partly blame Neil for this: for years i lusted after the Archives, only to be severely disappointed with the Vol 1 release (Umm, how many BlueRay downloads have we seen? Too few, IMHO).

At present, Neil strikes me as a capitalist pig, and to combat that i choose not to purchase his music. Anyhow, there are plenty of ways to listen to it for FREE if i really want to. You could make a serious case that at this stage Neil is in it for the money a little too much. This is not the Neil i came to know and love.

So, in a nutshell, if i can't get the disc for $12 or less, I aint buying.

Ok,Ok Greedy we here ya!...but I'm still puzzled...how did you arrive at the figure $12? ( 2 boutique beers in Auss or one packet of smokes) that extra $1.50 would of kept Neil in the lifestyle he has become accustomed to!!

Incidentally Greedy, your not related to Johnny Rocket are you by any chance?

Neil`s broke! Has no-one listened to FITR? His sales have tanked and he`s even had his flatsceen tv repo`ed! It left a hole in the wall and he missed the Raiders` game. Thank God he`s still got us.(LOL - I`m joking by the way, for the benefit of anyone who doesn`t get that)

greedy hand, you're a fucking moron. so you tell us you've spent 3000 bucks on neil this year, but now you won't spend more than 12 bucks for this cd? what the fuck kind of logic is that? first off, why the hell did you feel the need to spend 3000 bucks on neil this year? what was that, airline tickets, hotels, concert tickets? all to see his never ending rehashed electric tour? hey man spend your money how you want, but don't bitch about it after the fact. the fact that you spent so much AT YOUR DISCRETION on NEIL YOUNG shows that you have plenty of money to throw around.

Hi all...Wow, got this treat of free stream/notice of advance-purchase option today. I start thoroughly enjoying this musical treat, and reading comments posted as I listen. My heart is sinking as I see the bickering...PLEASE everyone, remember PEACE, LOVE, UNDERSTANDING! Don't strain at unimportant gnats and miss out on the good by taking us somewhere dark! Oh and if you are reading, Thanks Neil for all the heartfelt good you've given me through your music over the years of my life...and for your efforts at making the world a better place in the visible and non-visible ways you do. Many appreciate it! I know you are human, too, and so I don't expect perfection. ~ Lynda

Couldn't help but thinking while listening to War of Man how not a damn thing has changed in 17 years.

Except now it's Wars of Men.

And really. This albim is SO about peace & harmony. I think some of you guys need to listen a little harder here to what Neil's singing. Cause it looks by these comments that you're not listening. Still.

Awesome, Thrasher! I've been waiting for the stream of this, and here it is. Amazes me that people complain about paying for music, when Neil streams pretty much every album for free prior to release.

I mean sheesh, I couldn't afford the archives, but I ain't complainin'. Heck, they had a free stream of all the songs from that going for awhile, so I listened to them all, for free.

If Neil was trying to suction money out of me, I really don't think he'd be giving us the opportunity to listen for free. Seems to me he's an honest businessman - you can test drive the product without having to buy it!

this stream sure is a thing of beauty...thanks thrasher! i can't wait to get this cd...i can tell i will listen to it lots. btw, even though i'm not online so much these days, i'm still loving neil...cheers to all my rust friends out there...jules/freeroamingsoul

I gotta say; comparing Petty to Neil? Tom Petty is great and all- love the guy, but he doesn't hold a candle to Neil- I'd still pay three times the amount for Neil over Petty. $20. for a live four CD Petty box sounds about right. Neil's eight disc Archive(CD)box for $99. sounds very reasonable to me.I'm sorry but no artist I know of puts out product of the quality that Neil does- Christ, the blood, sweat, tears, love, time and passion that Neil puts into his releases really does make the stuff more valuable to me- and the proof is in the pudding. How great does the Archives sound? That was the best $200. bucks I think I've ever spent on music.Now, the question of Neil and Money and prices. Why is it that Fans of a musician feel they can put a price tag on some one else's art. What a sense of entitlement you people have- Because YOU are a fan means it should be what you say its worth? Listen no one says you have to buy this....shit, I'm pretty sure you'd be able to download this for free in a few weeks- personally I like to have the product, sounding as Neil intended it to sound. Despite how much you've spent in the past don't go on and on bitching about money and prices. I can afford this CD, maybe you cant and that's your business but please don't ruin my buzz with your money, greedy trip. I don't buy every single product sold by Neil and his company- I dont need to. I dont need a Greendale duffle bag. If you feel Neil is greedy don't buy what he's sellin'.Neil is rich and deserves to be- the man works hard and has for years. Have you ever tried to write a song? Have you ever done a world tour? I trust that Neil isn't ripping off his fans..really. Should CDs and concert tickets and lincvolt t-shirts be free? Hell that'd be great but realistic? No.Besides my bills, mortgage, and my soon to arrive baby-girl, what else do I have to spend my money on? I'm off the really expensive drugs now- so what else? I'd rather drop my cash on brain food- art like music, literature and the like. Life is short people- do what you can, do what you must, do it well.Quit the bitching and the hating.Please.Sit back, relax, lite a joint, inhale deep, exhale and enjoy the music. Enjoy the season, enjoy the HolidaysThank You ThrasherThank you Neil.ROCk On!

Yeah, well lets just talk about the songs on Dreamin' man...Probably my fav would have to be "You and Me"..has that "Old Man" feel about it... love the lyrics, and Neil's reachin' notes so crisp like his Massey hall Days..Yep I'll definitely BUY this album...even if its more than 12 bucks!

Well, I gave myself a little preview--the first four tracks--and it sounds great. Definitely looking forward to the rest. As with someone else on here, I was surprised to find myself almost tearing up during Such a Woman. Powerful stuff, indeed. The Harvest Moon numbers seem to benefit from this minimal treatment in the same way that the songs from Harvest gained a new dimension with the excellent Live at Massey Hall release a couple of years back. I thought it kind of funny that another poster noted that the last four PS issues--Massey Hall; Canterbury House; Riverboat; and this one--have all been acoustic. Personally, I could be happy without Neil plugging in a guitar for a while. Neil is the kind of artist who doesn't need any of the so-called "frills" to touch and move an audience. Some of his best music has been accompanied only by a lone guitar or piano with perhaps the occasional harmonica intermission. That's not to say he doesn't extract wonderfully bizarre sounds from Old Black, but that's usually a supplement used to enhance already strong material when he wants it. Take for instance Cowgirl in the Sand as performed on Massey Hall. Even without the theatrics normally associated with it, this song was, to me, just as fascinating purely on the basis of its lyrics. Now, I love the original recording of Cowgirl and the version on Road Rock because Neil going nuts via an amplifier adds tremendously to the song--so much in fact that I wasn't sure the song would work "unplugged" at first. But amazingly, it doesn't need the string bending to be a complete strong composition. It would be interesting to see how other electric perennials such as Cortez the Killer, Tonight's the Night, Words, Ordinary People, or even more recent songs like Change Your Mind and No Hidden Path would fare with similar treatment. All of these songs are greatly added-to by Neil's ascents to Jamming Heaven but I do wonder how they'd stand based purely on lyrics and melody? (Like a Hurricane on pipe organ, as found on the Unplugged record, was a decidedly eccentric thing but it worked in a bizarre sort of way, just like Trans works).

In the meantime, I'll occupy myself by enjoying Cowgirl in the Sand on Massey and the rest of Neil's great acoustic work. I find it amazing, all said and done, that he needs only enough accompaniment to express a melody to create a brilliant piece of music capable of transfixing an audience. Although the man himself would likely scoff at the notion, is this perhaps what one could call the Magic of Neil Young?